STARTUP OF THE WEEK

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Our mission is to reimagine the energy funding process to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy assets globally.

We observe a drastic shift from large fossil fuel infrastructure to smaller Solar and Wind distributed assets (from 0,5MW to 30MW).

Small to mid size project financing is a long, costly and complex process involving various intermediaries. Investors and project developers face fundamental problems resulting from the initial deal sourcing to a lack of transparency in project and service pricing, in the use of numerous and diverse sets of data, culture misalignment, a decentralised workflow and high transaction costs.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

While the share of renewable energy in the total global energy space is on the rise, demand is outpacing supply. Faster project execution and for that faster investments are needed to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable future.

The use of platforms to source for small to medium size projects and digitilise the renewable energy finance workflow can remove major roadblocks to a faster energy transition. A more productive relationship between project owners/developers and investors lowers the barrier of entry for business allowing more projects to get funded.

The use of blockchain helps create the transparent and trustworthy environment necessary for this mutually beneficial eco-system to work. Technology lies at the heart of the global energy transformation.

We believe that unleashing renewable energy finance is the key to a greener planet for ourselves and the next generations.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Blockchain and SaaS

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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VCs and / or Impact investors interested in Fintech/Cleantech start-up and looking for ways to tap on the future of this booming market.

Utility companies interested to gain market share in the small to mid-size renewable energy projects (Commercial and Industrial Solar Rooftops).

Insurance companies willing to provide products to developers/investors of such projects.

Financial institutions who wants to serve the developers in the region, finance such projects or provide innovation investment products for their private bank customers.

Development banks interested to support the development of the renewable energy projects and the local financing of these projects.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The current technology that is empowering Smart Electric Shared Transportation is not Sustainable.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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QIQ has launched a system of Smart Electric Shared Last-Mile Vehicles that are powered by Ultra-capacitors. Allowing Electric Vehicles to be charged fully in 7mins and a duty cycles of 50,000 times. This enable Fleet Operators of shared transportation to significantly reduce the need to increase capital for deployment, reduce the need to replace batteries that have shorter duty cycles. By lowering the cost of deploying shared transportation with sustainable technology, it is QIQ's aim to accelerate the adoption of Electric Shared Transportation.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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We are making use of Sustainable Battery Technology - Ultra Capacitors.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We would wish to seek partnerships with Existing Fleet Operators such as Bus Companies and Public Transport Operators.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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To remove the need for wiring infrastructure.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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TransferFi is creating the world’s first long-range, safe and efficient Wireless Power Network (WPN). It will be used to power Industrial IoT sensors to reduce wiring complexity and high-power applications that will provide easy access to primary sources of energy such as remote and offshore renewables. TransferFi is revolutionizing the way we access power.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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The technology we use are patented signal optimization and beamforming algorithms that will extend the range of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to more than 100 meters.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are looking for customers to pursue initial test bed deployments and investors to bring us onto the design for manufacturing stage.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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There are usually four challenges that industrial companies would face when they want to adopt IoT. Firstly, it is on how to integrate IoT with their current machineries or sensors to collect data. Secondly, it will be how the company is going to transmit the data to a central server. Thirdly, the company have to decide on either hosting the data in servers or cloud. And the final challenge would be to analyse the data to extract useful information and thereby reduce operation cost or increase the company's productivity. This is when Brightree comes in! Brightree is a one-stop IIoT solution provider to help incorporate IoT into companies and thus solving the above-mentioned challenges.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Brightree has a generic universal IIoT platform that can work with different machineries and sensors, transferring data via satellite/GSM networks or special RF signals to the Amazon Cloud. With such a seamless integration with sensors, accurate and reliable data can be extracted and therefore, quality data analytics can be performed. With such a platform, inaccuracy in fuel cargo transfer can be drastically reduced and several manual documents can be electronically created and tracked. The supply chain of fuel cargo can then be automatically, seamlessly and closely monitored and thereby reducing human error and pilferage. Our platform can be used for industries such as oil refinery, shipping, bunkering, smart building and manufacturing.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We hope to conduct a paid PoC with an oil major to showcase the accuracy and reliability of our IIoT system using Blockchain for their oil refinery predictive maintenance, fuel cargo shipping and documents tracking. We would also hope to scale up by acquiring new investor funding to regions such as China, GCC and South East Asia.

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WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Overlay provides a seamless access to aggregated expert knowledge across after-sales services for Critical Industrial Assets. We connect original equipment manufacturers to their after-sales partners via an interactive and easy-to-use platform. The platform allows an exchange of the most up-to-date information and expert insights that spans across all product models.

We offer the world's first intelligent augmented reality diagnosis assistance and remote collaboration platform for the industrial workforce. Our solution is composed of an end-to-end system that assists field engineers in various service tasks pertaining to industrial equipment, ranging from standard setup and configuration tasks to complex troubleshooting and diagnosis jobs. With minimal input from the user, our embedded intelligent agent consists of a step-by-step visual walk-through guide in real-time to help field technicians with diagnosis and fix process.

Our augmented reality tracking technology guarantees accurate and smooth user experience with information overlays, while our IP architecture and framework provides end-users with an interactive interface to add any new asset virtually as an AR-enabled object.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are currently raising funds for Pre-SeriesA, and we are also looking at contributing to business units, where on the job data collection and access to service information are highly valuable to the company's critical assets.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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There are multiple teams on-the-go and in-the-field who face difficulties sharing forms, checks and inspections within themselves and with their global offices. This is particularly so when assigning tasks for multiple workflow requirements while integrating data insights for workplace safety, health, environment goals and practices.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Chektec is a SaaS enterprise mobile platform with a customised, dynamic form creation engine for corporations that have large amount of documentation, checks and inspections which integrates data analysis, workplace safety, health and environment goals.

Unlike current legacy systems, Chektec is not only mobile optimised, it also allows for data inputs while off-line. In this way, it can provide teams with great flexibility while in the field, which is a large portion of the Energy sector where logistics, supply chain, checks and inspections play a dominant role in its operations. Another key factor of Chektec is being able to retrieve data insights almost immediately thus, enabling areas where new energy technologies that are being implemented to benefit from fast and efficient information.

The Energy Sector relies on business models of Joint Ventures and Non-operated ventures where Chektec allows for seamless collaborations as operations move between companies, assets and hazards are checked for corrective and preventive actions.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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A highly customized and dynamic form creation engine where data insights can be collected without any hard coding if changes are required for the form. Additionally, the system infrastructure allows for fluid collaboration between teams.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Strategic partnerships with corporate customers eager to adopt new technologies to improve their operational workflow and Safety, health and environment goals (can be other industries; facilities management, shipping, logistics etc.). Investors that are inclined towards the Energy sector who understands the value of corrective actions and the analysis for prevention.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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To make buildings more efficient with the use of electrically controlled glass.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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With Nodis TruTint, windows are electrically controllable by allowing users to switch the tint, color, infrared of windows instantly. And not only does TruTint smart glass reduce emission and improve energy efficiency, TruTint can also generate electricity. The impact of the TruTint smart glass is a 40% reduction in building related CO2 emission and energy use.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Electrically oriented color-coated nanoparticles.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are seeking for potential investors to raise $500k pre Series A funding prior to our $4M Q1 Series A funding.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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To increase the revenue of Auto Garage and Motor Insurance.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Big Data enables vehicles to be better maintained and also reduce carbon footprints.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Big Data collected from the vehicle.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We hope to seek for partnerships with Auto Service Providers.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Maritime assets are underutilised due to the lack of standardised and secured data-sharing. This will lead to wastage and excessive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DIsrUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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We can standardise and secure data-sharing via a Blockchain-enabled DataVault to aggregate shipping supply and demand to reduce under-utilisation, financial loss and GHG emission.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Blockchain-enabled DataVault to secure and standardise data sharing, and

Artificial Intelligence for Big Data analysis and aggregation.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We would like to develop solutions for energy companies who are large users of Maritime services so as to make their energy shipping cheaper, faster and greener.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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People need to visualize their IoT devices and real-time data feed in a 3D and geo-located environment to understand fast and react cleverly.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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We provide a web-based interactive, geo-located, 3D visualization tool for IoT applications for the energy sector.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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A combination of WebGL + GIS + 3D modelling with data management

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Corporation that needs visualization of their IoT systems

IoT system integrator and IoT platform providers

IoT solution developers

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Making clean and reliable energy accessible to everyone using direct energy partnerships and technology.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Customers shouldn't have to choose between what's good for their wallet or the environment when it comes to energy. Our platform offers everyone access to clean energy without the premium price. What does that mean? You'll be able to pay for renewable energy and still save money on your electricity bill.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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AI, machine learning and blockchain technology.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are currently only available in New York City but working towards a greater launch across the country.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Digital currency, footfall tracking, heat mapping, and smart lighting. Pavegen is a smart on-demand lighting solution that illuminates your path whilst you walk. This can help to improve safety and power off-grid wayfinding signage in public spaces.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We aim for Pavegen to be the Intel inside all smart cities of the future with an intelligent energy and data offering, made possible by reaching economies of scale in the near future. We are planning to strengthen our leadership team and invest in new tooling to meet the demands of our customers, scale the business and continue to innovate. We are aiming to enter four main sectors: education, brand marketing, brand retail, and smart destinations. - So anywhere there is high football! We are always welcoming investment, 2018 will be a big year as we extend our presence in all of those areas.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall. Our mission is to make our technology available to all communities, empowering people for a better world. Our patented technology connects people to sustainability and smart cities, creating powerful experiences which convert footsteps into off-grid energy, rich data, and rewards. We call this the internet of beings, making cities smarter with every step.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Pavegen is shifting to become a permanent and commercial smart-flooring solution. The technology has evolved from a singular tile, which generates electricity from footsteps to an entire array with three multi-functional component parts. These functionalities are called: data, floor, and energy. The new Pavegen System is poised to power the data-driven smart cities of tomorrow.

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Voltz is established to meet the needs for the growing demand for competitive electricity pricing and customer experience, anticipating the launch of the liberalisation of the Singapore energy market. As Singapore is about to embrace various options to purchase electricity price plans customized to households and organisational demands, it is essential to have a dynamic and streamlined platform for comprehensive decision making.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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The essential strategy of Voltz is to combine the elements of retailer-consumer interaction on a transparent platform, providing solution generating functions and customised value-added services for all our users. Voltz has created a dynamic marketplace through unbiased content management for the consumer to make the right decisions suited for their specific electricity requirements. Our mission is to achieve electricity price transparency and to empower users to take maximum advantage of the competition that now exists with an open electricity market.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Voltz will be the first electricity comparison portal in Singapore that will benefit consumers with the option to put their requirements on auction for retailers to offer their best bid. Starting an auction will further encourage competition amongst electricity retailers, ultimately lowering prices for our users. Customers may find better rates as retailers compete to offer their best bids in real-time. The only way to find the best possible price plan is to start an auction.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Voltz aims to partner with businesses and investors who believe in our mission in bringing customers a one-stop solution platform to meet their electricity requirements. As Voltz aims to expand the application of our unique auction feature to other industries, we are seeking partnerships which will merge solution generating ideas to further augment the Voltz platform. This partnership will also be an opportunity for our partners to tap on our extensive database of potential customers, allowing our partners to widen their reach.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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DEEP builds an infrastructure for the upcoming energy market where a growing number of prosumers produce renewable energy privately. New technologies such as smart metering devices, battery storage systems, and electric vehicles are reaching the masses as they become more affordable. However, the existing infrastructure is due for an overhaul because of the way the legacy energy system is structured, it is not able to cope with these technologies. DEEP provides a software stack connecting all participants of the energy market to a single platform, offering them a degree of flexibility and opportunities that the current infrastructure does not allow.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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DEEP provides stakeholders of the energy market with an end-to-end software stack allowing them to participate in the upcoming energy market. DEEP automates processes of energy utility companies such as billing and energy trading. At the same time, it enables them to offer new services including demand-side management tools and easy tariff switching. This not only disrupts the current energy retailing business, but it also lays a foundation for a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy environment which is expected to become the future as soon as European regulation supports P2P energy trading and self-consumption.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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DEEP leverages smart contracts to automate processes and utilizes blockchain technology to establish the foundation for a trustless P2P energy future. We are building a software stack that is comprised of several technologies ranging from an IoT Layer to a user-friendly front-end providing an end-to-end solution to the different stakeholders of the energy market.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are looking to partner with energy utilities to implement and further develop our smart contract-based software which is about to go into production at a large energy retailer in Europe. At the same time, we are looking to connect existing microgrid projects to our decentralized energy exchange platform, allowing prosumers to truly harness the benefits of a P2P energy system.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Currently most ride-hailing and car-sharing companies believe electric vehicles are too expensive/difficult to integrate into their fleets. Separately, many grid utility companies find it difficult to afford large capacity energy storage solutions which have the ability to improve efficiency, lower operational costs and allow larger shares of renewable energy.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Our flexible, integrated solution not only provides cost parity with traditional internal combustion engine vehicles but offers utility companies a large amount of energy storage capacity, for a very reasonable cost.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Vehicle to Grid (V2G) and battery swapping technologies.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are currently in talks with government entities as well as private sector ride-hailing and car-sharing companies.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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TOURNESOL is a new venture that aims to develop an all-in-one storage system for the home market. The design and the R&D will be done in France whereas the manufacturing of the inverter and the assembly of the whole will be done in Morocco. The interest of the product is to increase the auto-consumption of a solar roof.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Our aim is to have an easy-to-install battery, with small power (compared to Tesla powerwall), great design and low CAPEX. After selling the products, the idea is to develop services for the grid manager.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are seeking for automotive industry partners for battery recycling, for our first orders and for investors.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Amber Kinetics flywheels store electric energy using an electric motor-generator to accelerate (charge) and decelerate (discharge) the flywheel. The flywheel’s energy is stored in a high-strength steel rotor, designed with significant safety margins for safe, reliable operation for 30 years or 15,000 full duty cycles. Coasting and other losses are minimized by operating the flywheel rotor in a vacuum vessel, combined with magnetic unloading of the rotor to reduce bearing loads. Our M32 model, now being shipped to customers around the world, stores 32 kWh of energy in a 5,000 lb. steel rotor. When combined in groups of flywheels, similar to solar PV panels, individual flywheels can be scaled up to tens or even hundreds of megawatts. Each individual flywheel can be separately controlled and offers unlimited daily cycling.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are currently seeking customers and strategic partners whose use case(s) benefits from our KESS, such as

regions with an abundance of PV solar or wind (renewables plus storage);

developing nations and regions with poor or non-existent grids, but increasing demand for clean, reliable energy;

commercial and industrial customers facing high demand charges;

island economies (e.g. Philippines, Indonesia, and Hawaii).

We currently have a two-year agreement with Enel, one of the world’s largest energy companies, to test our KESS and evaluate it for future projects.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The intermittent availability of renewable energy significantly limits its ability to replace fossil fuels. Energy storage has the potential to solve that issue. Amber Kinetics manufactures the world’s first commercially available, cost-effective, kinetic energy storage system (KESS). Our breakthrough technology extends the discharge duration of flywheels from minutes to four hours, resulting in safe, economical and reliable energy storage for utility, behind the meter and micro-grid applications. Services which can be provided by the Amber Kinetics KESS include resource adequacy, peak shaving, renewable firming and ancillary services such as frequency regulation and spinning reserve.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Amber Kinetics’ flywheels, which are 98% steel by weight and almost completely recyclable, have accumulated 32,000+ hours of operation in the field. The company has operating units and/or executed contracts for units in the U.S., Philippines, Canada, Australia, and Africa.

Our KESS has demonstrated advantages over lithium-ion batteries on a total cost of energy basis. Amber Kinetics flywheels can be deployed in remote locations and extreme weather conditions with no HVAC or water required, and there is virtually no risk of chemical fire. There are no hazardous materials storage or disposal required. Our flywheels offer long life, modularity, scalability, high efficiency, 24-hour utilization, as well as negligible O&M. Those advantages, combined with zero degradation and unlimited daily cycling, position our technology favorably for a wide variety of use-cases.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Elestor has introduced a new technology to store electrical energy at a very low-cost level (Levelized Cost of Storage, or LCoS). With this technology, storage has been changed from a pure cost factor into an economically viable business model, creating a large variety of profitable business cases. With its unique and patented system design, Elestor has matured flow battery technology into a robust and highly scalable product, featuring storage costs per kWh far beyond what is achieved today by existing storage technologies (f.e. Li-ion, lead-acid). As such, the introduction of Elestor’s storage concept is the trigger for the energy transition to eventually accomplish a 100% clean electricity supply.Elestor’s system design allows for large production volumes against low manufacturing costs. By combining the intrinsic advantages of flow battery technology with Elestor’s proprietary and patented system design, the company is well positioned to gain leadership in the international industrial market segment (50 – 10,000 kWh). The scientific basis of Elestor’s storage solution can be found on their website.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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The exponential growth of renewable energy generation has created an urgent need for low-cost, scalable storage solutions. Generating sufficient renewable electricity is no longer the problem.Furthermore, due to the unpredictable availability of sun and wind, the huge expansion of renewable energy systems has only increased the unbalance between supply and demand and has a bottom line not decreased CO2 emission. The main effects of the large growth in renewable energy generation are growing grid congestion, leading to exponential growth of curtailment of wind turbines.As a consequence, balancing supply and demand has become the real challenge, even to an extent that the availability of an economically justifiable storage solution has become decisive for the realization of the energy transition.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Hydrogen Bromine Flow Battery technology.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Once current field pilots have been finalized, Elestor in interested in partnerships with investors to finance the anticipated steep ramp-up of the production of its storage systems in 2019. The market pull is today already concrete and growing, even while Elestor's commercial activities have not been started pro-actively.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The lack of access to clean energy, connectivity, and decent work among Base-of-the-Pyramid communities worldwide.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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The basic SOLARKIOSK E-HUBB unit can integrate 1-8 kWp of photovoltaic capacity into a modular kit-of-parts design that is easy to assemble even on challenging terrain. Its battery pack allows for 24/7 operation and serves as a power back-up at nighttime and during periods of unfavourable weather conditions.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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SOLARKIOSK is seeking B2B customers, project partners, and investors.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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SOLARKIOSK’s award-winning technology-design, the E-HUBB, is a renewable energy vehicle delivering solar products and services, connectivity, and sustainable consumer goods to off-grid Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) communities worldwide. The renewable energy generated and stored by the E-HUBB can be used to power productive use activities – ranging from viewing halls to hairdressers – run by local entrepreneurs. Through our last-mile distribution network, we aim to enable and empower rural communities, particularly women, by creating economic opportunities while at the same time tackling the health and environmental challenges associated with the use of fossil fuels.

The SOLARKIOSK E-HUBB has the potential to address a range of developmental challenges, beyond just the provision and storage of solar energy, with one cleantech solution. The SOLARKIOSK E-HUBB is designed to adapt and evolve along with the energy demands of the customer or community. For example, through the specially designed SOLARKIOSK canopy module, the E-HUBB can grow into a Connected Solar Market Center and generate additional energy to eventually become the nucleus of a local decentralized mini-grid network generating up to 40 kWp.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Battery charging and solar home systems don’t provide enough power to support most productive end uses. Further more than 30% of generated power from off-grid solar home systems is never used.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Using Okra’s innovative "grid-in-a-box" households can be connected together in a plug & play "smart-grid". Once connected, smart software activates to redistribute wasted solar power to where it is needed. Power from an Okra smart network costs about half as much as it does from standalone solar home systems, shaping it to be the most affordable electrification solution for off-grid villages around the world.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Smart Plug & Play Pay As You Go Microgrids

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are seeking local energy companies in off-grid areas to pilot our technology. Also, we are seeking investors who are excited about this technology looking to our investment round for $1.2M taking place currently.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The power sector has the biggest potential for replacing fossil fuels and cutting emissions thanks to renewable sources of energy. However, this will require strong investments to transition from the currently centralized electricity to transition to a decentralized model and provide large-scale solutions for the management and control of the millions of future Hybrid Power Systems (HPS) that will be required in the EU. Moreover, HPS today are not ready for this step: due to the high versatility of HPS, which typically consist of dozens of different components from different manufacturers, there is currentlyno way of remotely controlling and connecting these components. In addition, continual technological innovations in HPS present a significant challenge to operators, who need to adjust their maintenance and management procedures for every change, e.g. the recent transition from Lead-Acid Batteries (LAB) to more sustainable and efficient Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIB).

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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At Infinite Fingers, we have developed a solution for the needs of Europe’s future electricity grid: UMC , a Universal Monitoring and Control solution for HPS consisting of a combination of a central hardware controller that allows the interconnectivity of all components in the off-grid system, a cloud server, and a software platform which is used for analytics and remote control by the HPS operators .

In this way, UMC enables:

Remote control and monitoring of the complete HPS, including technological changes,

Data analysis, automated self-correction and preventive maintenance,

Up to 50% savings in operation and maintenance tasks and 40% of LIB, life-span increase through BMS control.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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IoT platform for off-grid power systems

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are interested in finding partners for commercial agreements with technical assistance and/or technical cooperation agreement. We are also interested to find potential investors with contacts and knowledge in the off-grid sector.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Developing and operating a utility in an emerging market is no easy feat. Between maintaining grid reliability, preventing theft, efficient billing, and communicating with end users, utilities face many challenges to developing sustainable and profitable operations.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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To solve the problems facing utilities in emerging markets, SparkMeter developed a smart metering solution specifically for these rural and urban utilities. SparkMeter was created in response to what we saw as aspects of the mini-grid engineering system and business model that almost inevitably result in mini-grid failure. As a team, we've visited and studied mini-grids that have been developed by the public and private sector, and that have been operated by communities, state governments, and local and international businesses (or some combination) that have failed from issues that we believe are resolved by using a metering system like ours.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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SparkMeter’s core value proposition is to be the most reliable and cost-effective means of moving data between the grid edge and the cloud in environments that have low bandwidth and intermittent power. Our system allows meter data to be collected and stored locally for years - even without an internet connection. This is achieved through the constant communication between the SparkMeters and the Base Station over our proprietary wireless mesh network. This network is 100% local and is created by the radio in the meters themselves communicating with the gateway in the Base Station.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are currently raising a Series A round of investment to support our growth in Asian and African markets.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Sunny Irrigation aims to support small hold farmers in Kenya and in East Africa to address reduced and interrupted water access and low growing crops that results in bad harvest, as well as monocropping that results in not generating higher income.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY sector?

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Sunny Irrigation markets an innovative solar microirrigation solution that consists of a connected Pay-As-You-Go solar water pump that also provides the farmers with instructions for optimal irrigation usage using a mobile phone. It contributes to the water-energy-food security nexus and supports the transition to a green economy.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Our farmers' success is powered by off-grid water pumps, Pay As You Go technology, and mobile phone-enabled agronomy advisory

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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As a profit-plus-impact oriented social business, we seek impact investors who share our goals of improved livelihoods of farmers, as well as development finance institutions who wish to earn interest while supporting sustiainable growth in emerging markets. In partners we seek agribusinesses who wish to see increased yields from their outgrower farmers.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Founded in 2014 and based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ME SOLshare Ltd. is a social enterprise contributing to the Global Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy for All. The company provides peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms and pay-as-you-go solutions to low-income households seeking rural electrification and empowerment. SOLshare, the pioneer of the micro-energy transition model, interconnects solar home systems (SHS) and empowers its users to earn a direct income from the sun. With SOLshare’s swarm electrification approach villagers become solar entrepreneurs and take action into their hands. In 2015, SOLshare inaugurated a swarm grid, the world’s first peer-to-peer (P2P) cyber-physical energy trading platform in rural Bangladesh. Later, in 2016, more grids were installed, and SOLshare is currently planning the deployment of ten new grids across the country and exploring new grid sites overseas.

Besides enabling affordable and sustainable energy access at the household level, SOLshare has successfully tested productive energy use appliances such as water pumps and rice hullers integrated to swarm grids for agriculture and other rural activities. Furthermore, SOLshare is developing technology and business models to use the infrastructure of swarm grids to provide internet access to the villages through smart hotspots. More recently, SOLshare is developing the concept for providing solar charging through its grids for the more than 200,000 “easy bikes” (electric rickshaws) that are operating in rural areas of the country; thus, reducing GHG emissions from charging and reducing the cost for easy bikes owners.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY sector?

In a SOLshare grid, every node is connected through a SOLbox, which is the world’s first and only machine-to-machine (M2M) enabled integrated direct-current (DC) bi-directional smart power meter that forms one node of a peer-to-peer DC solar nanogrid. The SOLbox also optimizes individual SHS battery state of charge and facilitate remote grid monitoring, optimization, and control. SOLshare holds a preliminary accepted patent for this technology and won numerous awards for the same, including the UNDESA Powering The Future We Want $1 Million Award along with Grameen Shakti ,the Renewable Transformation Challenge 2017, start-up energy transition award in 2017, the Intersolar Award and the UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award, both in 2016.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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SOLshare’s system operates similar to a swarm of bees, in that no central intelligence governs the network and a loss of power in one node of the system or single panel can be made up by the contributions of others. This setting results particularly appealing in a country which is known to be among the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Instead of individual solar home systems (SHS) working in isolation, SOLshare’s platform links them together in a peer-to-peer network to create a swarm for solar power production, thereby tapping into unutilized power from excess solar energy produced by solar home systems. This power can be traded within the community, allowing households with surplus power to earn money by selling it to those families who would otherwise go without energy. In Bangladesh, there are close to five million SHS operational in the field equating to 25% penetration of its rural population. This positions SOLshare’s Bangladesh operation in the biggest SHS market in the world with an aggregate of 200MW installed solar capacity and 3000MWh storage capacity, both of which use small distributed systems (e.g. 40Wp and 50Ah on average per system). The unique ability of SOLshare’s technology to integrate existing solar assets to create a local network unlocks the sharing potential for millions of SHS around the world. SOLshare grids utilise robust machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to enable pay-as-you-go (PAYG) schemes, optimise individual SHS battery state of charge and facilitate remote grid monitoring, optimisation, and control. Further, SOLshare’s ICT platform allows secure P2P electricity trading between users; coupled directly with their mobile money accounts which mean money can be earned in real time on the people’s mobile wallets while the sun is shining. Finally, the plug-and-play nature of the SOLbox allows the smart grid to grow dynamically from the ‘bottom-up’ as more users organically connect over time. Smart monitoring of grid performance and evolution is facilitated through the connection of each SOLbox to our Wi-Fi tower that feeds the information in our SOLweb but also opens the possibility of Internet sharing in the villages through smart hotspots. Our team is currently working on a scheme where we can share the internet over the power lines.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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The SOLshare platform interconnects end-users via through bi-directional end-user metering devices (SOLbox) integrated with an ICT mix of web and mobile applications. The platform is offered through a B2B partnership with established partner organisations (POs), large SHS providers who have experience in financing and distributing SHSs as well as providing training and after-sales services to rural households and micro, small and medium enterprises.SOLshare assists POs to conduct marketing campaigns to secure end-user clusters that show interest in joining a smart grid. POs invests in the SOLbox against an end-user contract upfront, alongside grid cabling and associated ICT hardware. SOLshare trains PO field staff on sales, installation, operation and maintenance of the smart microgrid. SOLshare also offers POs a subscription to data services including mobile payment collection, grid management and optimisation, and remote technical support.POs pay upfront for grid and metering (average USD 50 per user), recovering this via re-selling the metering device (USD 30), monthly connection fee (USD 1.30 per user) and a 50% profit-share on electricity trading fee, reaching breakeven within two years. End-user investment in solar-PV, metering device and storage is financed through existing schemes.The SOLcontrol is sold to POs leveraging an existing customer base, distribution, marketing and sales channels, and after-sales services, as well as technical training. Similar to the SOLbox delivery model, SOLshare provides training to POs and their technical service staff in installing and maintaining hardware as well as operating the management platforms.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Mee Panyar is pioneering a novel community-based business model for operations and maintenance and workforce training for rural mini-grids, starting in Myanmar. Leveraging the country’s existing 13,000 diesel mini-grids – many of which are in disrepair or running inefficiently—as learning tools for rural electricians, Mee Panyar will rehabilitate or hybridise these systems while filling the capacity gap in long-term operations and maintenance (O&M), which has been de-prioritised in recent national energy planning.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Mee Panyar's lean approach to rural electrification increases economic and social impact by enabling local communities to manage and operate mini-grids and significantly lower operational and maintenance costs in the long term. In traditional mini-grid and electrification models, these costs are exacerbated for rural systems by the distance from servicing infrastructure, replacement parts, and skilled labor. Through Mee Panyar’s participatory education program and apprenticeship model, locally employed operators who manage and maintain the system can perform frequent and preventative maintenance, significantly reducing O&M costs and extending system lifetimes. This addresses the underlying local capacity deficit that leads to a very short repair cycle and place control over the system's reliability in the community’s hands. Beyond this, Mee Panyar's investment in rural operators presents an opportunity to build credit within rural communities that may ease further development activities.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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As a part of the training, Mee Panyar will use specially developed toolkit that this toolkit that:

Is safe to use by untrained people.

Is safe-guarded against mistakes that would otherwise break and damage a system.

Is reusable for 30-50 trainings.

Can demonstrate basic electrical concepts in action.

After a project is complete, Mee Panyar will maintain continue to capture use data from each system using a remote-monitoring system installed during training. Overall, our program facilitates the transition to renewable mini-grids while providing critical financing and technology to enable rural operators to provide modern energy services to their communities.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Mee Panyar is seeking partners for a pilot project in Myanmar. We would like to connect with like-minded individuals and organisations interested in pioneering new methods for building employment and credit potential in rural electrification projects. We would like to connect with potential investors in addition to implementation partners. An ideal implementation partner would have established networks and relationships with rural Myanmar communities, through energy-related work or otherwise.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Solar technologies.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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Operators for our SHS,

Operators for our PAYG Platform,

Equity Investment,

Grants.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Access to affordable energy.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Solar home system.

After sales service

Last mile distribution

High quality.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Energy efficient consumption of hot water.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?

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Patented energy efficient hot water system reducing electrical capacity and load requirements by over 80%.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Combination of a heat pump, heat exchanger and solar thermal technologies combined in a patented system.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?

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We are looking for distributors/project partners in the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries. Investors and strategic partners are also welcome.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Control of street lighting as well as lighting in commercial and industrial buildings.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY sector?

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Secure and reliable two-way communication of individual luminaries through a power line.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Modulation of power line voltage.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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Customers, international partners

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The intangible and comparatively small nature of Energy Efficiency projects discourages traditional bankers and investors from investing in this area. The main challenge is the number of variables that bound the investments in the Energy Efficiency projects. Usually, the bank requires rigid guarantees to verify their investments. Moreover, Energy Efficiency can only be measured as a reduction against certain baseline consumption and not as a measure in terms of incremental physical production to encourage the investors and bankers.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES IT TRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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We aim to develop a decentralized data platform to facilitate financial transactions and to define the relationship between bankers, energy-saving companies, and the clients. Consequently, this would boost up the two-thirds of our energy efficiency potential that is still untouched. In the EU alone, public building renovation represents a €120 billion market over the 2017-2020 period. In addition to helping reducing carbon emissions, and creating millions of new jobs.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Deploy the blockchain technology to develop smart contracts that bound and define the relationship between the different entities of the Energy Efficiency process (investors, clients, and energy companies) under which terms and conditions between them are set and executed automatically with no intermediaries. We do it taking into considerations all changing variables in the context of Energy Efficiency which will be addressed by the energy companies and reflected in a transparent decentralized ledger. In addition, this will facilitate exchanging metering data, billing, and financial transactions.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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Blockchain is a new technology that still is in a very early stage of development mainly in the energy sector. Therefore, we are seeking for technical support in terms of developing the blockchain infrastructure. We are seeking to exchange the knowledge required to develop the smart contracts, communication medium, security controls, and authentication mechanisms. Moreover, we are looking for investors who are willing to take a step toward energy efficiency programs by funding our project and becoming our activity partners.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Customer Engagement for water and energy usages.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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Combining big data and behavioural science to decrease water and energy consumptions. Results in the UK show more than 3% reduction.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Big data analytics with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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Clients - Investors - Distributors' partners.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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We help industrial companies to become more competitive by saving on average between 5-15% of energy costs per annum and reducing their environmental footprint.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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METRON reshapes the way energy data is used in industries. We deliver Energy Transparent Factories, that is factories where energy usages are monitored, analyzed and optimized in real time. Our solution connects seamlessly to every industrial system in the shop floor. We are fully interoperable with all industrial protocols and thus allow our clients to break down data silos and fully digitalize their factories. Then, using machine learning models and dedicated knowledge bases, we are able to deeply understand complex energy patterns and identify non-intuitive optimization opportunities.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Our Artificial Intelligence is specialized in energy optimization. It does not only rely on machine learning models (data-driven approach) but also on dedicated knowledge bases (knowledge-driven approach) so that analysis does take into account industrial operations context. The key asset of our solution is also the ability to pilot industrial systems thanks to our bidirectional infrastructure.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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Our priority is to meet with energy-intensive industries (energy bill > USD1M), whatever the sector (food & beverage, cement, iron & steel, oil & gas, ceramics, pulp & paper….)We are also looking at establishing partnerships with ESCOs that already work with industrials, especially in the countries where a local presence is mandatory to do business.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Telemetry (the obtaining of measurement data from remote instruments) has traditionally been expensive, complicated to set up, and time-consuming.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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Ayyeka has addressed these challenges by developing an IoT-based end-to-end, battery-powered, ultra low power wireless telemetry device that connects to best-of-breed industrial sensors.Data obtained from Ayyeka is accessible both from an online user interface (UI), via integration with a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, or through the Ayyeka API.Creating plug-and-play smart networks with Ayyeka is simple, quick, and cost-effective.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Ayyeka's technology relies upon military-grade ultra-low-power lithium batteries and advanced embedded cybersecurity to deliver a quality of service that meets the requirements of operators in the industrial sector.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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Ayyeka operates projects in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. In addition, the company works with representative firms around the world to market its product to new geographies. Queries from both potential customers and sales partners are welcomed at info@ayyeka.com.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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1. Energy consumption and the increasing costs of energy.

2. Lack of sufficient data in manufacturing to make well-informed decisions.

3. Operational inefficiency.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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FactoryOne leverages 4 years of research from 2 universities, a combined 40 years of manufacturing experience, machine learning and predictive analytics to assist decision making, identify process weaknesses and turn them into cost savings. We have the unique ability to show energy consumption as a direct cost of production - per product, per unit. We offer simple subscription service that includes hardware, software, and subject matter expertise.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Our own purpose built platform called Rayven. A fully integrated enterprise IoT solution designed from the ground up for the Internet of things.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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We are looking for distribution partners e.g. energy consultants, hardware and equipment suppliers, software suppliers - businesses that have existing relationships int he manufacturing industry. Our solution is proven in the real-world, and ready for scale. We are also interested in working directly with manufacturing businesses.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Unplanned and premature failures of mechanical seals which are responsible for over 80% of pump failures in the oil, gas and chemical industry.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Novel cost-effective sensors that can be retrofitted to mechanical seals regardless of brand, a machine learning platform that mines the sensor data for insights near real time, and easy to use software that enables collaboration to increase overall plant expertise through shared asset performance knowledge.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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We're looking for angel investors and potential customers that are interested to participate in test rig trails in Saudi Arabia starting end of April 2018.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Lack of understanding of energy savings and cost & benefit of solar PV system for self-consumption in Thailand.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Blockchain and cryptocurrency wallet.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY?

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We are offering the digital platform www.solarlaa.com which provides the real time simulation and saving calculations for Solar PV system, marketplace and monitoring software and device to track energy consumption behaviour. We offer DiM tokens via www.digimint.org platform which shall incentivise more participants in energy saving.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?

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We are looking for an anchor investor or an energy-savvy strategic partner such as real estate developers or MNCs.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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The use of fossil fuels and other carbon emitting energy sources remains a big problem in the commercial and industrial sectors. Particularly for heating and cooling solutions, this is true for a variety of applications, including waste water evaporation, desalination, sludge drying and others.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Concentrated Solar Thermal which harnesses the sun’s energy and provides high temperatures of up to 400 degrees Celsius at high efficiency.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Megawatt provides energy solutions based on Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) which generates heat up to 400 degrees Celsius without emissions and practically at zero cost. This system is integrated into existing boilers/heaters/cooling systems to displace fossil fuels and related emissions. Megawatt’s solutions are modular, scalable and field-proven to be the most efficient among competing alternatives. Given the thermal storage capability Megawatt Solutions offers, a fossil fuel displacement of more than 90% can be achieved in certain industries – a global breakthrough leading to an investment payback period for customers of less than 5 years.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Megawatt Solutions is seeking to connect with customers in oil & gas and manufacturing, as well as with investors looking for a company that offers a high-return opportunity and has a solid team and a proven business model in place. Megawatt invites investors to join them in creating the world’s most valuable company for solar thermal industrial solutions.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Even though prices of solar systems have become cheaper than grid prices, there are still challenges in the adoption of renewable energy solutions. One of the primary hindrances is energy management in systems with multiple energy resources such as solar, battery, diesel generator, grid etc. RESync is solving this issue through its energy management platform.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?–

RESync’s smart energy controller, consisting of onsite hardware and a cloud based IoT solution, automates multiple energy sources like solar systems, diesel generators, and batteries to work together efficiently. Our advanced algorithms provide up to 30% of diesel savings.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

To penetrate the market with an immediate value proposition, RESync is targeting systems with solar and diesel generators. Because of multiple energy sources, current systems are operating very inefficiently. Despite generation of electricity by solar, most diesel generators are still left running or turned on and off manually, which means that as much as 30% of diesel is wasted.

RESync foresees that large electricity grids will face similar challenges as more renewables are installed. By collecting huge amounts of energy generation and consumption patterns, RESync Technologies will be in an excellent position to deliver a smart energy management platform for any kind of renewables energy source on any grid size – from a small island to an entire country.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

RESync Technologies is currently partnering with solar system installers, EPC companies, and solar consultants to bring its product to the market. The company is also seeking partnerships with people who are excited about the energy and cleantech space and who want to RESync the way energy is managed.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Milk the Sun addresses the question of how to buy or sell photovoltaic systems without having to get involved with too many intermediaries. The company’s platform offers everything an operator or investor in the photovoltaic market needs - from purchase and operation to a possible sale.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?–

Milk the Sun is a typical online platform based on state-of-the-art IT with intelligent algorithms and smart data.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Milk the Sun is looking for owners, developers, EPCs and operators of PV systems worldwide, as well as for private and business investors – individuals or funds/companies/organizations.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Milk the Sun’s platform consists mainly of three areas, which together cover every aspect of the life cycle of a photovoltaic system.

(ii) Milk the Sun’s professional, cost-free Online-PV-management with secure virtual data room has a clear “not more than necessary, but everything you need” – focus. The company breaks down the management of PV systems to the key information that is necessary to successfully operate and trade PV systems.

(iii) Milk the Sun is an independent partner for all services in the field of photovoltaics. Its users benefit from professional services of its selected partners – from loan deals and due diligence to system cleaning and technical maintenance.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Currently, solar panels have a long return on investment period from 4 years to 10 years while efficiency is in the range of 8 to 17 percent only. Solar panels have low reliability especially in harsher environment which shortens the lifespan of solar modules. Less reliable solar modules produce negative net clean energy which results in more harm than good for the environment. Solarite aims to shorten the return on investment period by increasing the solar cell conversion efficiency.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Solarite’s systems use advanced technologies in order to ensure durability and reliability of energy supply.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?–

The Solarite (low concentrate photovoltaic) concentrates sunlight at <100x onto the solar cell. The product aims to shorten the return on investment period and to increase solar cell efficiency. Solarite uses a combination of hot mirrors (to remove heat from the sun), cylindrical lenses (to focus sunlight onto the solar cell) and vacuum (as heat buffer) to achieve higher efficiency in energy conversion. In the conversion process, sunlight is reflected from the reflective mirror (primary concentrator) onto the Solarite (secondary concentrator). The Solarite concentrates sunlight onto a strip of high efficiency solar cells to achieve higher conversion of solar energy into electricity. Solarite also uses a single axis solar tracker which makes the system produce consistent energy output throughout the day.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Solarite seeks equity investment with potential investors.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Reducing electricity bills in urban India through solar energy.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Solar Photovoltaic and Real Time Data Monitoring.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Our residential solar installation and financing platform is one of the first in India.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

We are eager to speak with stakeholders in FinTech to build on our solar financing platform.

WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM YOU ARE ADDRESSING?

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Delivery Electric Motorbikes

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY THAT YOU ARE USING?

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Electric Brush-less DC motors with big data analytics systems

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Solva provides the market in the GCC with the first ever electric motorbikes for delivery purposes. Solva's market approach is data driven while building a lean business to ensure no future place for piston engine motorbikes in the future.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Investors. Currently we are running a pilot project with 9 of the top companies in Dubai.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Batteries need to be safe, durable and affordable, with applications for the future of mobility.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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Metal - CNF (Carbon Nano Fiber) composites

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Car-hailing businesses require affordable and quick charge systems when they become self-driving EV in 2020. Hence, Zeptor wants to integrate American innovation and Japanese engineering into business in South Asia.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

HySiLabs revolutionises the hydrogen delivery market with its unique liquid carrier solution. HySiLabs offers to industrial players in the energy sector an emission-free and handy solution to transport and deliver substantial quantities of hydrogen. This liquid hydrogen-carrier enables to release hydrogen on-demand, with no energy input. The liquid hydrogen-carrier is stable, non-toxic, and non-explosive, enabling the same logistics as conventional fuels.

HySiLabs’ liquid hydrogen carrier has a high hydrogen density, enabling us to considerably reduce the number of trucks needed to supply hydrogen. One truck of HySiLabs' liquid carrier can transport up to 7 times more hydrogen than conventional tube trailers (pressurised hydrogen at 200 bars).

HySiLabs solution is an enabler in shaping this low carbon industries' future and will fully unlock hydrogen potential, disrupting the energy sector.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

The next 18 months will consist of preparing for a pre-industrialisation of the process. Then, a co-development agreement with an industrial partner will be set up in order to implement a pilot plant and be ready for a series A investment in 2020. Thus, HySiLabs is looking for:- Investors for the next round of investment- Industrial partners that can bring their expertise in chemical industrial processes and industrialisation- Industrial partners to implement a pilot plant- Support and expertise (mentors for eg.) in the following areas: regulations, IP, chemical industrial processes, risk assessment- Skilled people in chemical, mechanical and project management

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Hydrogen is foreseen to be a key player in the energy transition. It is a very promising solution as it can be used in a wide range of sectors. It can be used to fuel mobility or store renewable energy - two sectors where decarbonised solutions are required. However, its uptake is limited by heavy regulations, safety issues and the need to develop a specific supply chain. Our solution is a game changer in this sector. It will lift all barriers that hinders the development of hydrogen applications and thus supporting low-carbon technologies deployment.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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The know-how of HySiLabs is built from two innovations: the "Renewables-to-Liquid" solution which enables to charge with hydrogen a liquid carrier, using renewables. This liquid is stable at ambient conditions and safe, with a similar handling (logistics and infrastructures) as existing liquid fuels. The second innovation, "Hydrogen on demand", enables releasing hydrogen from this liquid on demand, on site, without energy input and without emissions. Our technology maintains the advantages of an energy-dense hydrogen vector without any storage or transportation issues.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Privately owned combustion engine cars in cities cause huge problems on behalf of the environment, health and quality of life, like carbon dioxide emissions, noise, traffic density and so on.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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Intelligently connected eVehicle-Fleet with the option of battery swapping besides charging by cable.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

We replace dirty and privately owned cars through a downsized and shared eMobility system for cities, which is cheaper, cleaner and better.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Customers and Investors in different countries.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Neuron is holistically solving the last mile mobility needs for both last mile delivery as well as short distance travelling.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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On the network level, Neuron as the first Singaporean startup supported by Esri, is using ArcGis for geospatial analytics and optimization. On the mobility system, Neuron developed a full suite of proprietary Transport IoT solution that allows us to remotely control the electric mobility device and charging stations in real-time.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Neuron offers a data-driven approach to short distance travel by providing an end to end solution including software, hardware and analytics platform that allows real time monitoring and control of mobility system

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

We are looking for partners and investors to expand the business.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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We aim at facilitating electrical vehicles charging at home or work.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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Back end and Front end app.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

It is a full service proposal (installation, administrative work for subsidies, back office, automated payments, maintenance and eventually data analytics). It helps car owners switch from diesel or petrol cars to Battery Electric Vehicles or Plug-in Hybrid EVs.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

GridComm creates a network over power lines and uses this network to connect street lights, automatically controlling lighting levels and implementing predictive maintenance, saving cities millions of dollars in electricity and maintenance costs.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

1) Investors (raising $6M Series A funding)

2) Partners: street light manufacturers, systems integrators

3) Customers

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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We help clients switch from diesel, which is expensive, dirty, polluting, to clean renewable solar energy. Our geographical expertise is across Indonesia, especially in remote locations such as island resorts, plantations, and even in city areas where energy is unreliable and still rely on backup diesel generators.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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The technology we employ begins with site visits and feasibility studies on the best technologies to use to match the client’s energy situation. We then deploy the most suitable design and equipment to achieve the client’s objective. The technology is best harnessed when the right solar PV equipment, paired with the reliable efficient inverters, and supported by batteries and energy storage solutions (ESS) to deliver the complete clean energy solution.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

We believe our service offering is compelling as we are a one-stop clean energy provider. We handle from start to end, the initial energy analysis, system design, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), as well as testing, operations and maintenance. What our clients like a lot is our different financial payment schemes which meet client's cash flow requirements, such as monthly instalment plans and even longer solar leasing financing options via power purchase agreements (PPA).

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

We are looking to partner and support clients who are as equally committed to the UN SDGs and want to be responsible industry leaders and go green. We also discovered that many companies out there may have the renewable energy technology, but do not have the capabilities such as import licenses, permits, financing, manpower supply, to properly execute the projects in Indonesia. This is our strength and you can work with us, the Right People People, to achieve success together.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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BBP delivers energy savings as a service by using our patent pending technology to optimize existing HVAC systems without undergoing a costly equipment replacement change.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

We deliver quantifiable energy savings for commercial and industrial buildings at scale. This is done via our optimization system that targets existing HVAC systems without sacrificing comfort and disrupting operations.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Our target market are industrial companies that use a lot of AC or climate control systems for their operations (eg. semiconductor, pharma, electronics etc), district cooling plant operators as well as real estate portfolio owners. We are also seeking for investors that can help BBP scale into our target sectors as well as expanding overseas (eg. South East Asia and Greater China).

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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We help commercial as well as community customers to get access to cheaper, cleaner and reliable electricity. Our customers are dependent on dirty and expensive diesel electricity. We add renewable energy sources along with energy storage to convert their diesel assets into renewable microgrids. We reduce their diesel consumption as much as 80%.

Product 2 - " Canopy Power Remote Microgrid Monitoring & Management System" : This is our proprietary technology. Remote microgrids are notorious for low uptime as response time when the system is down is very high. Our remote monitoring systems allows us to ensure high uptime as we not only monitor the performance but also actively manage (e.g. system restart, set-point change etc) remotely. Data collected through monitoring is analyzed by our data analytic algorithms which help with improving the control strategies dynamically.

Service 1 - "Project Financing" : We provide project financing to our qualified customers through our network of investors. Financing is a key enabler and we are bridging the gap in market by bringing finance along with our innovative technical products and services.

Service 2 - "Engineering Toolkit" : We have developed an engineering toolkit which is used by us as well as our local partners to design and engineer microgrids rapidly - substantially reducing the cost of engineering.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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Electrification of the off-grid population of Southeast Asia

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Pay as you go solar home systems

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

We distribute and finance pay as you go solar home systems. In other words, we provide rural electrification systems at the household level on a rent to own model. This allows off-grid customers who earn less than 100 USD a month to access affordable, reliable and clean energy with a flexible payment scheme.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

We are currently backed by Uberis Capital and have established relationships with IIX, Kiva and IFC. We are seeking partnerships with both equity and debt investors who will help us accelerate the growth of our active base in Myanmar.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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The greatest problem for solar and renewables is the challenge of software data integration and the high upfront cost of software development. Another challenge is the lack of meta-data and building solar forecasting solutions that enables the solar panel owners to accurate predict their monthly revenue. We aim to provide solution to these challenges.

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We develop the solution using advanced cloud architecture provided by AWS. This provides unparalleled scalability, security, and affordable pricing for our customers. Our hardware solutions are customized according to customer needs, which will be cost-optimized. We have been training our machine learning engine since inception, which will provide productive artificial intelligence insights to our customers.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

We are transforming the industry by creating the most easy to use platform for solar developers to provide to their consumers as well as to monitor the technical health of their business. Our SaaS platform, Andromeda, is a solar monitoring solution capable of integrating myriad sources of data onto a common platform. We believe that this platform empowers developers, EPCs and solar companies to be able to get a real time understanding of their PV system's generation, reduce equipment downtime, and improve productivity.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

We are looking to partner with Solar developers / EPCs and customers of C&I Solar projects. We typically go to market by partnering with such solar developers and scaling up and innovating on features as they get new projects.

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We are moving away from the traditional, centralised fossil-fuel power stations towards a hyper local green energy economy - where decentralised micro-generation turns buildings/houses into mini power plants and communities take control of their energy supply. The future of energy is decarbonised, decentralised, digitalised and democratised; which means energy will be produced closer to where it is consumed and we will see more small to mid-size renewable energy projects. Renewable energy investments offer long horizons, predictable cash-flows, diversification, and excess yields. These attributes can align well with the needs of many institutional investors, a group that collectively manages over USD 70 trillion in assets. However, despite this apparent match, renewable energy investment vehicles are not structured in a way that can attract institutional investment especially when it comes to small and mid-size renewable projects. Positive Energy.Community [PEC] through its Social Platform for Renewable Energy Accumulation & Distribution [SPREAD] aims to engage institutional investors in the financing of renewable energy projects to free-up balance sheets of project developers and project finance banks, reduce overall costs, and thereby encourage new investment in the sector. PEC aims at addressing the following roadblocks/ problems when it comes to investing in renewable energy projects:

- Soft costs (legal, finance, marketing, project mgmt) represents more than 50% of the project cost for small to medium size capacity projects

We believe SPREAD by leveraging blockchain technology can reduce the soft cost of projects and support and accelerate the financing of new carbon-free capacity.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?

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SPREAD’s most innovative element is the implementation of blockchain technology in a unique way for creating an innovative financial structure (comprising aggregation, credit enhancement, credit structuring) on renewable energy assets in emerging markets for the first time. We are approaching the stated problem by leveraging blockchain technology and tokenization to provide greater transparency, ease of trading, and immutability of information to all stakeholders. Insofar, we are the only organization trying to address the core challenges faced by global investors while financing renewable energy projects.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

Of the many challenges in financing renewable energy projects, cost of capital, trading of assets (liquidity) and cost of due diligence of these assets stand out together in terms of their long term impact. Since they are interconnected, we have designed a platform that addresses these challenges and accelerates renewable energy financing. It allows project developers and IPPs (Independent Power Producers) to discover lower cost of capital by showcasing their project to investors across the globe. The due diligence data room on the platform allows the investors and the project owner (developer/IPP) to reduce their 2-3 months’ due diligence process by over 1 month. In addition, investors are able to trade the assets on the platform and gain greater liquidity. SPREAD is a platform which allows pool managers to create pools of renewable energy assets of the same asset class and create a flexible instrument that could encompass a variety of financial structures (similar to a quasi-liquid private bonds - equity/debt), tailored to the renewable energy financing market and to investors’ preference and specific country needs. It could range from simple project debt pass through to a full securitization structure. In general, SPREAD aims to facilitate transactions between institutional investors and project lenders to increase the scale of available financing for renewable energy and reduce its costs.

SPREAD ease the financing of clean energy by leveraging blockchain technology to tokenize green energy assets (Solar, Wind, BioMass, Storage, EV charging infrastructure). These tokens can be leased, sold through the platform in order to reproduce most of the existing market situation (Synthetic PPA and others...). The infrastructure can also support true and virtual micro-Grid deployment.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Positive Energy Community self-funded its development so far. We are looking now for 1m€ Seed fund raising and are for investors to help us expand internationally. Ideally our investors would also provide some accelerators to our commercial development (like an initial portfolio of assets that could be listed on SPREAD). We also want to partner with project developers who would like to finance at best conditions their existing or future projects (between 1 to 20MW). We would then work with them to list their projects on SPREAD and give a chance to our investors (energy & infrastructure funds, family offices) to bid for them.

We are also looking for a constellation of operational partners able to support us in our development. This could be third parties able to support our investors in the Due Diligence process in different geographies of the world when required (Technical due diligence / credit rating agencies, etc...) ; or financial institutions willing to promote innovative investment products to their clients ; or Social Impact investors looking for new ways to deploy their money in the energy sector.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?

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BeeBryte is addressing several problems faced by commercial and industrial buildings:

(i) the ever rising electricity bills that slow business down and

(ii) the growing concern of reducing their overall consumption as well as their carbon footprint.

WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY tHAT YOU ARE USING?–

We employ a real-time optimisation algorithm that is based on a unique methodology, for which we filed a 1st patent in March 2016.

We can extract up to 1/3 more savings than competitors like Geli or Green Charge Network.

WHAT ARE THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU ARE SEEKING?–

Up to now, BeeBryte has been totally funded by the two founders. We are starting a 2m€ series-A fund raising and are looking for investors to help us expand internationally.

After a bit more than year and a half of R&D, we have signed our first contracts in 2017. BeeBryte is deploying its business in Singapore with a beachhead target in the Food and Beverage manufacturing and retail industry, and in the logistics sector.

WHAT IS YOUR OFFERING AND HOW DOES ITTRANSFORM/DISRUPT THE ENERGY SECTOR?–

BeeBryte is leveraging Artificial Intelligence to make buildings & factories use less electricity and become smarter! We optimize comfort, cost and efficiency. BeeBryte is disrupting the electricity retail business with its Software-as-a-Service controlling in real-time both batteries and heating/cooling equipment (e.g HVAC) to arbitrage on electricity spot markets and reduce utility bills of commercial & industrial customers up to 40%.

We temporarily shift heating/cooling loads and use batteries as energy buffers to (i) desynchronize the purchase of electricity from its consumption in a building, (ii) minimize energy costs without affecting occupants’ comfort, and (iii) maximize any self-consumption from onsite generation (e.g. rooftop Solar PV).

3. Early 2018, we want to expand our offer with “Hive Supply” and retail electricity to our customers. With direct access to the wholesale market (futures + spot) BeeBryte can revolutionize the hedging strategy and significantly reduce the energy purchase costs thanks to the additional real-time control of our customers’ load flexibility (HVAC & batteries) and consequently offer discounted (fixed) utility rates to compete with traditional energy retailers. BeeBryte is addressing several problems faced by commercial and industrial buildings: (i) the ever rising electricity bills that slow business down and (ii) the growing concern of reducing their overall consumption as well as their carbon footprint.

What is the specific problem you are addressing?–

Current operation and maintenance process of solar PV farms is inefficient. There are 5% abnormalities under detected by the traditional human scouting method as it is labour intensive and time consuming. Therefore, solar PV farm owners fail to maximize their plant energy yield outputs. In view of the global solar PV energy output of 300 GW, the total potential annual yield loss could surmount to staggering USD 900million. With the advancement of drone, aerial images can be collected at scale but large volume image post-processing and turning data into actionable insights still remains a huge challenge.

What is your offering and how does ittransform/disrupt the energy sector?–

The most disruption part of our solution is enabling granular insights to make smarter business decision, which was unable to derive from existing SCADA monitoring. AVA makes use of artificial intelligence algorithms to comb through drone aerial images to identify solar PV panel abnormalities that are yield-diminishing for the plant owner. Actionable insights e.g. defects/location/recommendations are then provided to the client to take remedial actions to avoid further yield loss. Owners earn yield improvement of which would otherwise be undetected for the remaining period of asset life. Based on past trending learnt, AI could perform predictive analysis and suggest preventive maintenance that reduces cost and effort. With the granular prescriptions in place, owners could for example, perform targeted cleanings to area which gets dirtier than normal. This in fact unlocks the first step of smart maintenance. Image what this leads to, an integrated platform with cleaning robots, drone, string data and SCADA to perform targeted task that enabled a smart human-less plant.

What is the underlying technology that you are using?–

There are 2 core technologies that we are using. (1) Autonomous drone flight which the drone requires zero experience of the drone pilot to control it and capture the data from the plants with desired quality regardless of terrain and environment. (2) Processing of terabytes of images via Artificial Intelligence. Our algorithm processes tonnes of images to uncover insights such as defects of the plants and do predictive analysis on the plants to understand insights such as soiling intensity over the entire power plant, whether cleaning schedule can be optimized and as such reduce water consumption.

What are the partnerships that you are seeking?–

We are looking for (1) Customers who are interested to purchase AVA product & software subscriptions, including Solar PV farm owners, O&M Operators and Engineering Procurement Team (2) Angel investors who would be interested to invest Series A for AVA to proceed with Market/Product Expansions (3) Partners in China, India, Japan and US.

Laura has 11 years of international experience in consulting and advisory. She has developed a deep knowledge of the energy sector through operational projects and extensive analysis of market rules and government policies (at GCC and European level). With a thorough understanding of key regulatory challenges, Laura is also a coach and trainer for start up and innovation projects inside organisations, having contributed to programmes such as Pitch@Palace (sponsored by the Duke of York and Khalifa Fund) in the UAE, in several innovation departments set-up and to the development of Sia Partners Datascience practice.

Imad Atwi
Digitalisation Strategy&

Strategist and execution professional, with 12+ years of experience across the MENA, SEA, and Europe. Digital ecosystem builder and advisor of governments, technology companies, and startups on digital transformation, policies, innovation strategies, business plans, partnerships, and operating models. Aficionado of for-profit social enterprises with strong expertise in the entrepreneurship space along business development, due diligence, sales, and marketing. Advised, mentored, and helped fundraise for various startups and social enterprises in the MENA and SEA region. Judge of several entrepreneurship forums and competitions. Strong believer in untapped regional and global technology potential in improving the quality of life and economy for developing and developed countries. Working on exciting solutions to solve key challenges that will bring economic, social, or environmental upside for the MENA/ GCC region, utilizing forward looking policies, technology strategies and execution.

Julien Richard
Behavioural Change & Sustainability

An ex-strategy consultant with 10 years’ experience across multiple industries & geographies, assuming leadership positions with innovative companies & startups in the middle east over recent years. An excellent team player, business oriented with strong interpersonal skills.

Tanzeed Alam
Sustainability & Policy
Earth Matters

For over fourteen years, Tanzeed has promoted positive change on climate change, energy and environmental conservation across three continents within government, industry, businesses and communities. At Earth Matters Consulting, he is responsible to leading and growing the business with a number of different clients. A few key projects include managing a global sustainability prize based in the region, leading the development of Dubai’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy on energy, food and financial services, developing a report on solar powered desalination in the UAE and running a training programme on climate change foremployees of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority. Tanzeed’s previous experience includes directing the Climate Change, Energy & Sustainability work of the World-Wide Fundfor Nature (WWF) in the UAE and GCC region. Previously he was Science Policy Advisor for Energy & Climate Change at the UK’s independent scientific academy, the Royal Society andProject Manager for CarbonSense, a consulting firm helping businesses develop climate change strategies. Tanzeed has a post graduate MSc in Conservation from University College Londonand BSc (Hons) in Zoology from the University of Edinorough.

Pierre Samaties
Managing Partner & CEO Innogy

Pierre has 15 years of experience in the Energy and IT industries, advising international clients on strategic assignments. Before taking over the position as Managing Partner & CEO of innogy International Middle East in July 2014, he worked as a Partner in innogy Consulting – a leading European strategy and management consultancy in the energy industry.

Pierre holds an MBA in General Management and a B.Sc. in Information Technology. In addition, he holds several executive certificates from renowned business schools, including MIT Sloan School of Management (USA), INSEAD (France) and London Business School (UK).

Omar is Director of Corporate Communication & General Services at the Supreme Council of Energy (SCE), Government of Dubai. A UAE national, Omar graduated with a degree in General Business from Dubai Higher College of Technology and a Master's degree in Strategic Project Management from Heriot-Watt University, School of Edinburgh, Scotland. Omar joined the Supreme Council of Energy in November 2011. In his present role, he is overall responsible of General Services (Admin, Legal, Finance, HR & IT) as well as the Corporate Communications (Managing the stream of SCE's Corporate Communications, Media, PR, Stakeholder Management and Government Relations).

Prior to his current role, Omar was Director of Communications for Royal Dutch Shell "Shell Markets Middle East Limited" for nearly 5 years. Before joining Shell in 2007, he spent 3 years with the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) where he was Head of Region (Europe and United States).

Soon after graduating from university, Omar started his career in sales and marketing with Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) in 1998, where he managed government corporate accounts (Ministries, Royal Family...etc). Omar is also a member in several committees, he is the Chairman of Corporate Communication Committee for Energy Sector in Dubai, Chairman of Planning & Coordination Committee of Emirates Energy Award. Secretary General of Dubai Global Energy Forum. Member of Infrastructure and Environment Legislation at Supreme Legislation Committee of Dubai, Member of Media & Marketing as well as Logistics & Services of World Energy Forum 2012, Member of Dubai Executive Council for General Network of Government Communication, member of Public Diplomacy of Dubai Media Office, Member of Dubai Carbon's steering committee, Member of Advisory Board of Inclusion & Diversity in Energy at ADIPEC & Member of Arabian Leaders of the Future Association

Vinson Chua
Co-Founder, Director Lumani

Vinson has more than 20 years of business development in the Asia region working with different industries from Telecom, Information Technology, Storage, Semiconductor and other technologies.

He has worked in management positions with multinational corporations like AMD, technology start-ups and a local Singapore companies. Before joining Lumani, he was a business partner of a distribution company dealing with Defence Electronics and Telecom Products.

As a co-founder of Lumani, he is very passionate on sustainability and in particular, achieving total indoor ambient management with AI.

Vinson graduated in 1994 from Nanyang Technological University with a Honors Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, majoring in Control Engineering.

Imran Syed
Head of Industrial PowerEnerwhere

Imran is an experienced power systems engineer who is responsible for design and implementation of Enerwhere's advanced hybrid systems. Imran started his career as an electrical engineer in the mining industry, followed by 5 years in academic research on renewable energy power systems, including a stint at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he worked on PV-based DC micro-grid control with the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Imran holds a Masters degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, and is currently pursuing a PhD in electrical power engineering from the same institute.

Nadir Cassam Chenai
Business DevelopmentMetron

Nadir Cassam heads business development for Metron in UAE. He is a French engineer with 7 years of International experience in Energy sectors. Nadir started his career as Project Manager in Africa for IPP providers. He has deep knowledge on power generation and relocation of power plants and experience with hybridration of these plants with PV-based technology.
He is now responsaible to leading and growing the business with a number of clients in MENA regions for METRON, which is specialized in Energy Intelligence for industrial clients. The technology is based on Artificial Intelligence, including digitalization of industries, energy transparency, and development of fully distributed energy systems.

A Clean Tech advisor and entrepreneur with deep market know-how and experience. Proven track record in different areas; from product/market development, system engineering, project development and R&D operations to leading multi tasked core teams crossing different organizational subsets.

Avadhesh (Avad) is the founder of Realex (realexapp.com), an innovative venture for SmartCity-PropTech consulting, digital solutions and technology platform. It focuses to digitize and automate real estate lifecycle by applying digital strategies around mobile-web, blockchain, artificial intelligence & IOT. As an entrepreneur, he is also a member of INSEADERS.vc, The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE.org), Dubai Technology Entrepreneurship Centre (dtec.ae), Dubai Silicon Oasis (dsoa.ae).

Avad is a results oriented executive with entrepreneurial mindset. Accomplished general manager with over 15 years of experience in competitive environment in diverse industries applying skills in strategy, innovation, finance, marketing and organization behaviour. He has had a successful and progressive professional career in leadership roles working with leading Management & Strategy Consulting MNCs such as SAP consulting, Hitachi Consulting, NTT Data, Mahindra-Bristlecone Consulting and with Technology MNCs such as SAP, Hewlett-Packard, Dell. He also helped build three American Ventures (2 from Valley) that got acquired. He has led teams from 5-200 people to build and manage P&L of USD 50Mn -250Mn across country-region levels. He has engaged Fortune 500 / Forbes 2000 organizations across 18 countries globally for digitization, innovation and transformation.

He holds a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD (dual scholarship), B.Com from University of Toronto, Post Graduate Diploma in International Business and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA-Accounts Topper) from other distinguished institutions. He is certified "Design Thinking" expert. He is a Canadian citizen and has lived and worked in India, USA (Houston, Washington D.C, Boston, SFO, Chicago) Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal), Europe (Paris, London, Amsterdam), Middle East (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Dammam, Bahrain, Qatar) and Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lampur, Bangkok). He is currently based in UAE.

Natalie Sleiman
Head of UAEShe Loves Tech

Natalie is a results-driven, business development professional with a successful record in driving operations towards excellence in processes, distinguishable customer relationships, strategic brand value creation and record sales targets. An innovative marketeer, she has hands-on experience in the development of products with strategic fit and high customer engagement, to support corporate growth and ambitions. She worked with.

Natalie is a believer in continuous learning and improvement and practice it in all aspects of her personal as well as professional life. She is passionate about strategy, the consumer and creating value in high growth environments. Natalie brought She Loves Tech, a global initiative showcasing the convergence of the latest trends in technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the opportunities it creates for women, to the UAE> She holds Global Executive MBA from Insead.

Sekhar Chakraborty develops strategies for profitable growth of business by maximizing customer values with digital solutionsin sustainable world bringing together energy management, automation and software with 25 years’global experience in switchgear industry.

Taras Wankewycz
Group Founder & CEOH3 Dynamics Holdings

Taras Wankewycz is the Founder of H3 Dynamics. H3 Dynamics is building the future of remote sensing and field data automation by merging AI-analyticswith sensor-bearing tele-robotics. The group is developing numerous technology stacks in parallel - all ofwhich enable the vision for fully automated decision support anywhere, anytime.